Dried Cranberries Uthappam

We went to Udupi palace few weeks back. My husband ordered Pineapple Uthappam (which I am gonna write pretty soon) there and it tastes really good to me. I totally forgot about this one and last week my husband asked me to make pineapple uthappam. Luckily, I had the batter for making uthappam. But I ran out of pineapple. My hubby dear is a person who never asks anything like this. I felt very bad and wanted to do something similar to that. Suddenly I saw dried cranberries sitting in my fridge, so thought of trying uthappam with cranberries. I was not sure about the taste when I started making this one. But interesting!!! it was really awesome. Here is the recipe I followed...

Ingredients:-

1. Dosa Batter - 1 cup (required quantity)
2. Cranberries - 2 tsp (for one uthappam)
3. Dosa Milagapodi - 1/2 tsp (acc to taste)
4. Sesame Oil - 2 tsp (for one uthappam)

Pre heat dosa pan, pour one or one and half laddle batter in the pan, sprinkle dosa milagapodi evenly, arrange the cranberries accordingly, pour the oil on the sides of uthappam. Cover it with a lid for couple of mts. Turn the heat to medium. Flip it over when one side is golden brown. Remove if from the heat, immediately after flipping it over, but make sure it is fully cooked. Since we are covering it with a lid, it must be cooked by then. This way, the texture of cranberries will not change. Final result - he really liked this one too...

Tomato-Onion Uthappam

Another receipe with left over Idly batter. My MIL call it south Indian Pizza:). Here is the receipe and the main ingredients are as follows:-

Ingredients:-

1. Idly Batter - 1 small cup
2. Tomato - 1/4 finely chopped
3. Onion - 1/4 finely chopped
4. coriander leaves - 1 tbsp finely chopped
5. oil - 2 tsp

Pre-heat the dosa pan, pour the batter, sprinkle the tomato, onion and coriander leaves on top of it and pour one tsp of oil and let it cook for 3 mts. Flip it over and pour the remaining oil and let it slow cook for 3 more mts. Serve it hot with coconut chutney or sambar.

The above said quantity of ingredients is enough for one big uthappam.

Cheese & Carrot Uthappam

Again I tried this with my 3 year olds and it worked out really well. I make uthappam with the left over idly batter. In my family nobody(including me) likes to eat idly more than a day. The left over batter will become dosa or uthappam. Here is the receipe and the main ingredients are as follows...

Ingredients:-

1. Idly Batter - 1 small cup (approx. 2 full spatula)
   
2. Shredded Cheese - 1 tbsp
3. Shredded carrots - 1 tbsp
4. oil - 2 tsp

Pre heat the dosa pan, pour the above said idly batter, sprinkle the shredded cheese and carrots on top of it. Pour one tsp of oil and let it cook for 3 mts. Turn it over and pour the remaining oil and let it cook for another 3 mts. Serve it hot with tomato sauce or chutney(if your kids like one!!)